Welcome Jeremy & Whitney Lloyd, Gateway’s new Worship
Pastor! One year ago this month Gateway began a search for a fulltime Worship
Pastor. The reason for the search is that I, along with the senior staff and
Personnel Team agreed that we needed a fulltime Worship Pastor. We needed
someone working with me during the week in sermon and worship planning.
Cory Singleton has graciously served Gateway for the past 2
years. We love Cory! However, many of
you may not know that Cory’s fulltime job is in the youth department at the SC
Baptist Convention. God has used him over the years in this role. Having Cory,
Christian Tyler and Leona Mixson has allowed the search team to “not rush” in
finding the one person God had for Gateway. A HUGE thanks to Cory, Christian
and Leona!!!
It is a great story as to how God lead us to Jeremy… I will
tell it in church one day soon.
For the past 7 years, Jeremy has faithfully served at the
Olive Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. Olive is a church that has over
3,500 regular attenders. Here are some highlights about Jeremy and his family.
- Jeremy was born and raised in Panama City, FL and is 33 years old.
- Education: University of West Florida & New Orleans Theological Seminary
- Served as worship leader for Centrifuge (A SBC national youth camp)
- Served at Olive Baptist Church for the past 7 years as Middle School Student Pastor and High School Student Pastor
- Lead the contemporary worship at Olive Church (which is similar to our first worship service)
- Lead weekly worship and preaching for the high school worship (which is similar to our 2nd & 3rd worship)
- Lead worship for various city-wide events
- Itinerant Worship Leader both regionally and nationally for various conferences
- Jeremy’s strengths are in voice, guitar, bass, music theory and band arranging.
- Whitney is a graduate of Samford University and has taught elementary school for 5 years. She is now a stay-at-home mom.
- They have two precious children, Isabella, 2 years old and Jackson, 9 months old.
- Jeremy spends his free time playing guitar, running marathons and playing golf.
- He is running in the Boston Marathon for the second time this coming spring.
Give Jeremy and Whitney a great Gateway welcome!
A huge thanks to the search team that worked with me in
seeking God’s man: Vicky Nettles, Janice Whiteside, Michael Graham, Jeff
Douglas, Barnaby Dedmond, Tagg Wolverton, and Ronald Flynn.
